We all know how great Google is. It allows you to type two or three words or even sentences and find useful links related to these words. However, more often than not, there are many pages that Google suggests that are not incredibly useful.
Of course, there are many tricks or ideas to help the search engine: type only essentials words, avoid punctuation marks (:, ?, !, ;,…), use define: word to find a word’s definition or filetype: [pdf | mp3 | ....] to find PDF, music, etc. If you want to refine your search results visit the following link in Free Technology for Teachers, they also recommend Scoopler, OneRiot, Google Wonder Wheel (click first on Show Options and then Wonder wheel in the Standard View section) and Google News Timeline as well as many others. My post Are there any alternatives to Google is also a good way of finding other options available like Spezify.
I also like Delicious, it’s a site that’s worth a try. They define it as social bookmarking and I think it really is. As it’s formed for personal bookmarks you will find links relevant to people and therefore more likely to include the information you are looking for.
Finally, I strongly recommend that you search for tags, as it’s the way people have categorised and organised their bookmarks as well as using the same website to keep track of your own bookmarks.
Happy surfing!
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